Friday, February 7, 2014

Screening of "Four More Years" with Allen Rucker

Allen Rucker, founding member of TVTV (Top Value Television)will be in attendance for a screening of Four More Years(1972).

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3:00 AM - 5:00 AM

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TVTV (Top Value Television) was a video collective of young countercultural media makers who, from 1972 to 1977, used the first portable video cameras to take on America’s social and political issues from a street-level perspective. In a time when all television was produced by one of three commercial networks, TVTV’s mobile, irreverent, and insightful mode of Guerrilla TV captivated audiences and startled networks, forever transforming television journalism and documentary practice.

Leading the group Newsweek termed the “braless, blue jeaned video freaks” was Allen Rucker, who will be in attendance to discuss the rise and fall of TVTV and meditate on the possibilities of decentralized media production in our own digital moment. The event will include screening of TVTV’s seminal Four More Years which documents the 1972 Republican National Convention in a fashion that exploded traditional political television coverage and introduced many field reporting strategies soon co-opted by major networks.

Part of Oxy Videotheque: Electronic Art & Activism 1967-2014In a digital moment where terms such as “cinema” and “film” are becoming increasingly blurred, this series focuses instead on video, the electronic medium that has precipitated much of that change. From its analog origins, to digital and now web-based iterations, video has profoundly transformed cinematic ideas of authorship, audience, aesthetics, and agency. From early guerrilla video collectives and community-based video activism to digital storytelling and video performance art, this series invites the Oxy community to explore the politics, poetics, and possibilities of video.

Friday, February 7, 2014

Taking on TV: Early Video Collectives and Guerrilla Television

The Oxy community is invited to a screening of Four More Years (1972) and a conversation with TVTV founding member Allen Rucker as a part of the Media Arts & Culture Program's Oxy Cinematheque series, "Oxy Videotheque: Electronic Art and Activism 1967-2014".

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Time:
3:00 AM - 5:00 AM

Sponsor:

TVTV (Top Value Television) was a video collective of young countercultural media makers who, from 1972 to 1977, used the first portable video cameras to take on America’s social and political issues from a street-level perspective. In a time when all television was produced by one of three commercial networks, TVTV’s mobile, irreverent, and insightful mode of Guerrilla TV captivated audiences and startled networks, forever transforming television journalism and documentary practice.

Leading the group Newsweek termed the “braless, blue jeaned video freaks” was Allen Rucker, who will be in attendance to discuss the rise and fall of TVTV and meditate on the possibilities of decentralized media production in our own digital moment. The event will include the screening of TVTV’s seminal Four More Years which documents the 1972 Republican National Convention in a fashion that exploded traditional political television coverage and introduced many field reporting strategies soon co-opted by major networks.

1. Allison Dinielli, “Take Care of the Sense, and the Sounds Will Take Care of Themselves:" The Development of Identity Through Syntax Variation and Word Play in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”

Friday, February 7, 2014

A Talk by Ippolita Rostagno '86, Jewelry Designer

Ippolita Rostagno '86, world renowned jeweler, dancer, and entrepreneur will speak on how she used her English degree and Oxy experiences in business, art, and achieving success. She holds a degree in sculpting from the Italian Istituto d'Arte and founded an alternative dance company, Rime, in Los Angeles. In 2011, she was inducted into the Council of Fashion Designers of America.